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beat themselves for agony

  • 1 plango

    plango, nxi, nctum, 3, v. a. [from the root PLAG, plêssô; cf. Lat. plāga], to strike, beat, esp. with a noise.
    I.
    In gen. ( poet.; cf.

    plaudo): fluctus plangentes saxa,

    Lucr. 2, 1155; 6, 115:

    moribundo vertice terram,

    Ov. M. 12, 118:

    humum,

    id. H. 16, 334:

    quanto planguntur litora fluctu!

    id. ib. 19, 121:

    tympana palmis,

    Cat. 64, 261:

    nunc (Boreas) ipsas alis planget stridentibus Alpes,

    Sil. 1, 588.— Pass., of a bird when caught:

    plangitur,

    beats with its wings, Ov. M. 11, 75.—
    II.
    In partic., to beat the breast, head, etc., as a sign of grief (class.):

    qui multis inspectantibus caput feriebas, femina plangebas, Cic. aer. alien. Mil. Fragm. 2, 4 (t. 11, p. 32 B. and K.): laniataque pectora plangens,

    Ov. M. 6, 248:

    femur maerenti dextrā,

    id. ib. 11, 81:

    lacertos,

    id. ib. 9, 636:

    pectus,

    Petr. 111.— Pass. (= koptesthai):

    scissaeque capillos Planguntur matres Calydonides Eveninae,

    beat themselves for agony, Ov. M. 8, 526.—
    B.
    Transf., to lament aloud, wring the hands; with aliquem or aliquid, to bewail a person or thing ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    planxere sorores Naïdes... Planxere et Dryades: plangentibus absonat Echo,

    Ov. M. 3, 505:

    ab omni plangitur arce,

    Stat. Th. 11, 417:

    plangentia agmina,

    Verg. A. 11, 145:

    plangentium gemitus,

    Just. 19, 2 fin.:

    modo Sporum hortabatur ut lamentari ac plangere inciperet,

    Suet. Ner. 49; id. Oth. 8:

    plangentis populi derisor,

    Juv. 6, 534.—With an object:

    tendit palmas, ceu sit planctura relictam Andromedam,

    Caes. Germ. Arat. 198; Val. Fl. 3, 297:

    Memphiten bovem (i. e. Apim),

    Tib. 1, 8, 27 (7, 28):

    damna,

    Stat. Th. 11, 117:

    malum,

    Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 159; Vulg. Judic. 11, 37.— Pass.:

    virtutes quas neque lugeri neque plangi fas est,

    Tac. Agr. 46:

    majore tumultu Planguntur nummi quam funera,

    Juv. 13, 131.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > plango

  • 2 plangō

        plangō ānxī, anctus, ere    [PLAG-], to strike, beat: victima planget humum, O.: Nunc nemora plangunt (austri), V.: Laqueis... Crus ubi commisit volucris, Plangitur, beats with its wings, O.— To beat in lamentation: femina: laniataque pectora plangens (i. e. ita, ut lanientur), O.: Planguntur matres, beat themselves in agony, O.— To lament aloud, wail: planxere sorores Naides, O.: plangentia agmina, V.: plangentis populi derisor, Iu. — To bewail, lament for: virtutes quas neque plangi fas est, Ta.: maiore tumultu Planguntur nummi quam funera, Iu.
    * * *
    plangere, planxi, planctus V
    strike, beat; bewail; lament for, mourn

    Latin-English dictionary > plangō

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